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Unapologetically Creative is the official podcast from Vermont College of Fine Arts, featuring bold voices in art, design, and storytelling. Through fearless creativity and cross-disciplinary thinking, each episode explores how culture is shaped and reimagined.
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The Art of Staying in the Game: Marq Evans on Filmmaking, Creative Business, and Persistence (opens the original)
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Award-winning filmmaker and VCFA alum Marq Evans shares the realities of independent documentary filmmaking, from finding and financing the right stories to navigating distribution and building an audience. He also reflects on treating the business side of art as a creative practice, using new tools like AI, and why persistence is one of the most important parts of sustaining a creative life. Time Stamps: 01:05 Clay Dream and the Story of Will Vinton 03:22 Why Every Documentary Is Autobiographic
Making Space for Play: Callie C. Miller on Storytelling, Creativity, and Finding Your Voice (opens the original)
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Children’s book author and animation writer Callie C. Miller discusses how play, curiosity, and persistence have shaped her creative life. She reflects on finding her voice as a writer, breaking into animation, building a career through relationships and intentional practice, and why making space for joy can lead to stronger, more meaningful creative work. TIMESTAMPS: 01:05 Meet Callie C. Miller 02:33 Where Callie’s connection to play began 05:06 Why adults need play too 07:24 Finding your voice
Finding the Rhythm: Clifford Thompson on Jazz, Essays and the Creative Life (opens the original)
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Award-winning essayist, and educator Clifford Thompson discusses the essay as a form of inquiry—an argument with the self that can reveal unexpected meaning in lived experience. He reflects on how his collection, Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays , came together as a mosaic rather than a conventional memoir, and how decades of listening to jazz shaped his sense of rhythm, sentence-making, and creative structure. Clifford also explores the unlikely connections linking literature, music, painti
Dressing the Story: Debra McGuire on Friends, Anchorman and the Art of Costume Design (opens the original)
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Award-winning costume designer Debra McGuire discusses how clothing helps shape character, comedy and the visual language of a story. She reflects on her journey from painter and jewelry designer to costume designer, the demanding pace of creating wardrobes for Friends, and her more than 30-year creative partnership with Jennifer Aniston. Debra also shares the collaborative process behind Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik costumes in the Sonic the Hedgehog films, how she built the distinctive 1970s worl
Choosing Creative Risk: Tomás Gómez Bustillo on Storytelling, Purpose, and Independent Film (opens the original)
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Tomás Gómez Bustillo, an award winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty member, explores the creative philosophy behind his acclaimed feature Chronicles of a Wandering Saint and why meaningful storytelling begins with embracing uncertainty. Drawing from his experience blending myth, memory, and visual poetry, he reflects on finding beauty in ordinary moments, developing a distinct artistic voice, and trusting audiences to discover meaning for themselves. Tomás al
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